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Message: <blockquote data-quote="presumed_druid" data-source="post: 883031" data-attributes="member: 11619">This may be a little different, but here it goes.500 years ago, the land was being ravaged (a la Saruman).  Trees were being uprooted, and a force of relentless and unwavering laborers furiously worked pick and shovel into the ground.Then the evil started... zombies, ghouls, and other mockeries of life.  They spread like wildfire on a windswept savannah.Of course the paladins, clerics, and druids believed that the undead abominations were controlled, and created by the land-ravagers.  Thus began the battle... just like it happened 500 years before... and 500 years before...In reality, the land-ravagers were assembled under a sect of Oghma [I'm not up on my Realms, but this is the god of knowledge, correct?], who had unveiled the fact that there is an ancient evil that has awakened in a 500 year cycle for millenia (and it's been getting stronger and longer-lasting... this time it may be permanent without PC intervention).  They were not themselves evil, but as they tried to get nearer the evil underground temple, they slowly began to succumb to the evil aura that the temple oozes.  This sect may be recalled as being evil, so if a few mysterious strangers bearing thier symbols begin poking around, things could get interesting.What is the evil?  Hmmm?  Well, maybe the evil is an elder god (as suggested in an earlier reply) that has been banished/imprisoned in the earth.    So who imprisoned the elder god, and how, and why.  Let's say the imprisonment was by a powerful devil who feared that the elder god was threatening his power base (adding details to this can only make it easier to develop things later on).  The devil forced the elder god, through a signed contract, to dig into the bowels of the earth for 499 years, during which time, the devil sealed the entrance.  The cleverest part of the contract was that the elder god had only one year out of every 500 years spent imprisoned, in which he was allowed anything but to burrow into the earth.  So with a 500 year cycle, the evil comes closer to the surface, and it's evil and crazed rage boils out of the very ground.  This force is strong enough to animate the dead that are buried in the earth, and it also effects the living, driving them towards evil, and insanity.  The god can only leave the tunnels if he can somehow break the seal that the devil has erected.  Perhaps the sect of Oghma has some useful info, as well as some that is not correct.After so many years of digging, the tunnel system under the earth would be HUGE!  It should be inhabited by a menagerie of monsters, possibly hooking up to the underdark.   Maybe the god is acitvely worshipped.Hope that helps.</blockquote>

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